"Michael 

 O Halloran 



By GENE STRATTON-PORTER 



Author of "Freckles," "Laddie," "A Girl of the Limberlost," Etc. 



What One Million Readers Will Enjoy in this Book: 



First of All — Mickey himself 



Mickey says : 



f 



'Be Square." 



JTT "I been on the human 



j1 nature job since I was 



four. When you go cold and 



hungry if you don't know 

 human nature ■ — why you 

 know it, that's all!" 



JTT "Try grin, 'stead of grouch, 

 jJ just one day and see if 

 the whole world doesn't look 

 better before night." 



#][ "If you like your job, man, 

 jj cotton up to it ; chuckle it 

 under the chin, and get real 

 familiar." 



a newsie, small in size, but with a big, broad, common 

 sense street philosophy of life and a ready Irish wit 

 and cheerfulness that go right to your heart. 



Then— "Lily Peaches" 



Mickey's "family" whom he found abandoned 

 with a crippled back, and cared for till she was 

 cured. 



Third — The Love Story 



of Douglas Bruce and Leslie Winton, "Bearer of 

 Morning" laid in the woods and Tamarack 

 swamps Mrs. Porter knows and loves so well. 



Above All, Nature 



— the charm of the woods, the swamp 

 flowers, the bird songs, furnishes a back- 

 ground, as in all of the author's work. 



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Gene Stratton-Porter's First, and in Her Own Words, Her Best Loved Book 

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